/2011

Homeless people in the UK revealed to die aged just 47 | Society | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/21/homeless-people-life-expectancy-47

Homeless people can expect their lives to be about 30 years shorter than the average in the United Kingdom, with a likelihood of dying at around 47, an age of death comparable to that found in the Congo, according to a report by the charity Crisis.

Homelessness: A Silent Killer reports that homeless people in the UK who suffer the stresses and strains of alcoholism and substance abuse live only a little longer than those in the poorest countries, with the average age of death at 47 for men and 43 for women. This compares with 77 for the general population. The research, by Sheffield University, calculated that drug and alcohol abuse were responsible for just over a third of deaths among the homeless. They were also nine times more likely to kill themselves than the general public, and twice as likely to die of infections.

A separate report reveals almost 70,000 children will wake up on Christmas Day in temporary accommodation, without a permanent home to call their own.

#sdf #Royaume-Uni

Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits | Society | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/16/young-jobseekers-work-pay-unemployment

Britain’s jobless young people are being sent to work for supermarkets and budget stores for up to two months for no pay and no guarantee of a job, the Guardian can reveal.

Smoking and drinking in pregnancy ’harms 10,000 babies in UK each year’ | Society | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/11/smoking-drinking-pregnancy-harms-babies

Britain’s top children’s doctor has said that more than 10,000 babies each year suffer serious harm, including death, because their mothers drank alcohol, smoked, over-ate, or took drugs during pregnancy.

#alcool #grossesse #santé

Malaria vaccine : many in scientific community thought it was impossible | Society | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/oct/19/malaria-vaccine-immune-parasite-key

gros dossier du Guardian sur l’essai RTS,S ; ici interview avec le chercheur de GSK qui a le premier eu l’idée d’explorer l’immunité cellulaire

GlaxoSmithKline research head Moncef Slaoui explains how change of focus to cellular immunity was key to breakthrough

#malaria #paludisme #vaccin #santé

Gay people ’at risk of a lonelier old age’ | Society | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/11/gay-people-risk-old-age

Gay men and women in Britain are far more likely to end up living alone and have less contact with family in later life than heterosexual people, according to a groundbreaking report that raises significant questions for how society responds to their needs.

#lgbt

Où l’on apprend qu’au Royaume-Uni, la liste nominative des plus hauts salaires de la fonction publique est publique justement.
Government publishes list of 291 people paid more than £150,000, with some on extra allowances up to £60,000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/aug/02/francis-maude-end-lucrative-public-pay
Beauté du sport :
“There are 10 members of the Olympic Delivery Authority on the list who are paid up to £2.1m between them. Dennis Hone, the ODA’s chief executive, is paid one of the highest salaries – between £310,000 and £314,999 – on the list.”
Et bienfaits du nucléaire :
“Tony Fountain, the chief executive of the nuclear decommissioning authority, is the highest paid public servant. He is paid between £375,000 to £379,999 plus a £70,810 allowance in lieu of pension and a £76,650 second home allowance that will be reduced later this year and phased out in 2012.”

Congo : The rape of men | Will Storr (The Observer)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/17/the-rape-of-men

Sexual violence is one of the most horrific weapons of war, an instrument of terror used against women. Yet huge numbers of men are also victims. In this harrowing report, Will Storr travels to Uganda to meet traumatised survivors, and reveals how male rape is endemic in many of the world’s conflicts

The rape of men | Society | The Observer
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/17/the-rape-of-men

Laying the pus-covered pad on the desk in front of him, he gave up his secret. During his escape from the civil war in neighbouring Congo, he had been separated from his wife and taken by rebels. His captors raped him, three times a day, every day for three years. And he wasn’t the only one. He watched as man after man was taken and raped. The wounds of one were so grievous that he died in the cell in front of him.

#viol #guerre #Ouganda

Oxi: Twice as powerful as crack cocaine at just a fraction of the price | Society | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/30/oxi-crack-cocaine-south-america

A highly addictive hallucinogenic has exploded on to South America’s drug scene, with devastating consequences

#drogue #amérique_latine

Petites anglaises alcooliques // British girls ’biggest teenage binge drinkers in western world’ | Society | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/22/british-girls-biggest-binge-drinkers

British girls are the biggest teenage binge drinkers in the western world, according to a report.

Half of 15-year-olds have been drunk at least twice – almost double the 29% average of other developed countries, while 44% of 15-year-old British boys admitted to being intoxicated on two or more occasions.

Girls also drink more alcohol in the UK than their male counterparts, with 44% of 15-year-old boys being intoxicated on two or more occasions.

Green #tea could help ward off dementia, scientists show | Society | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/06/green-tea-alzheimers-cancer

"Chemicals produced during digestion may protect brain against #Alzheimer's and #cancer, say Newcastle University researchers"